So then Better, wherefore. The conclusion is drawn from the whole preceding argument. It is the assertion of our liberty in the Gospel of Christ freedom from the curse of the law, from the yoke of ritual observances, from the bondage of sin and Satan, from the burden of an evil conscience an earnest of "the glorious liberty of the children of God".
Verse Galatians 4:31. _SO THEN_] _We_-Jews and Gentiles, who believe on the Lord Jesus, _are not children of the bond woman_-are not in subjection to the Jewish law, _but of the free_; and, consequent...
SO THEN, BRETHREN - It follows from all this. Not from the allegory regarded as an argument - for Paul does not use it thus - but from the considerations suggested on the whole subject. Since the Chri...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Under the law in the state of minority. (Galatians 4:1)_ 2. The Son revealed to redeem. (Galatians 4:4) 3. Because ye are Sons; the Spirit of Sonship. (Galatians 4:6) 4. The backslid
GALATIANS 4:21 TO GALATIANS 5:1. The new thing he tries is an allegorising spiritualising application of an OT story. Slave-born Ishmael mocked (Genesis 21:10 *) free-born Isaac, and the son of the sl...
THE DAYS OF CHILDHOOD (Galatians 4:1-7)...
Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? Well, then, it stands written in it that Abraham had two sons; one was the son of the slave girl and...
SO THEN. Tho texts read, "Wherefore. ...
21–5:1. _Another appeal, based upon the principles underlying the history of Hagar and Sarah, and the birth of Isaac. Christ set us free; stand fast therefore in this freedom_ (Galatians 4:21) You wis...
ΔΙΌ. Always of practical result rather than argumentative inference (οὖν); a deduction from the preceding Galatians 4:21-30, which must be carried out in daily life (thus forming the transition to the...
ΔΙΌ (G1352) следовательно.· Это вывод из предыдущего обсуждения и подведение итогов раздела. О связи аллегории с темой послания к галатам _см._ С. К.Barrett, "The Allegory of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar...
SO THEN, BRETHREN,— The Apostle, by this allegorical history, shews the Galatians that they who are sons of _Agar,_ that is to say, under the law given at mount Sinai, are in bondage; the peculiar inh...
TEXT 4:28-31 (28) Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise, (29) But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, so also it is now. (30) How...
_VERSE 31. SO THEN, BRETHREN, WE ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THE BONDWOMAN, BUT OF THE FREE._...
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. SO THEN [ ara (G686) oun (G3767), G. But 'Aleph ('...
1 The place of an infant heir differs from that of a slave in right but not in fact. Though entitled to all, he is treated as though master of nothing. He is watched by guardians, and supervised by st...
4:31 servant's (d-8) Or 'bondmaid,' _ paidiske_ (as Acts 12:13 ). Though in practice the word amounted to the same as a bondmaid, yet the Greek root is essentially different from that of _ doulos_ , a...
THE BONDAGE OF THE LAW. FREEDOM IN CHRIST 1-7. Under the Law we were in bondage; under the Gospel we have received the freedom of sons. PARAPHRASE. '(1) The heir before he comes of age can no more en...
SO THEN] RV 'Wherefore'; since this rejection does not apply to us; we belong to a higher lineage and order. And as we are thus spiritually free (Galatians 5:1), let us take care to maintain our freed...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 YOU ARE GOD’S SONS, YOU ARE NOT SLAVES V1 I will continue what I was saying to you. A young son will receive the property that his fath...
Paul finished the explanation that he started in verse 21. Ishmael could not receive anything from his father. Real Christians, who trust Jesus, are not like that. They are like Isaac. They will recei...
(21-31) The next eleven verses contain an elaborate argument from the history of the two sons of Abraham, as types of the two covenants, in further proof that freedom is the essential character of the...
CHAPTER 19 THE STORY OF HAGAR. Galatians 4:21 - Galatians 5:1 THE Apostle wishes that he could "change his voice" (Galatians 4:20). Indeed he has changed it more than once. "Any one who looks closel...
The preceding allegory has illustrated the essential difference between the heritage of Jews and Christians. Whereas Jews inherit bondage to Law, freedom is the Christian birthright, derived from thei...
to Galatians 5:12. Freedom is our birthright in Christ and an essential condition of our call. Accordingly the Apostle protests against the claim that all Christians should be circumcised, as a depart...
“CHILDREN OF PROMISE” Galatians 4:21 In this allegory of Sarah and Hagar, it is important to notice that Paul is not dealing with the principle of evil within our hearts, but with the attempt to min...
He now declared the process of freedom. "God sent forth His Son... under the law." Thus the law He kept was justified, and He lived thereby. But more than this, He bore its penalty, and so procured ju...
(8) So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. (8) The conclusion of the former allegory, that we by no means procure and call back again the slavery of the Law, seeing...
REFLECTIONS READER! what a blessed thing it is, when an heir of God in Christ is got out of the tutorage of a bondage state, and is brought into the liberty, wherewith the Lord makes his people free?...
(20) I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. (21) В¶ Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? (22) For it is written, that...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
_BONDAGE OR FREEDOM?_ ‘So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.’ Galatians 4:31 In this Epistle St. Paul carries our thoughts back to the pathetic scenes associated...
31._So then, brethren_. He now exhorts the Galatians to prefer the condition of the children of Sarah to that of the children of Hagar; and having reminded them that, by the grace of Christ, they were...
The relative position therefore of the Jew (even though he were godly) before the coming of Christ, and of the believing Jew or Gentile when Christ had been revealed, is clearly set forth; and in the...
SO THEN, BRETHREN,.... This is the conclusion of the whole allegory, or the mystical interpretation of Agar and Sarah, and their sons: WE ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THE BONDWOMAN; the figure of the first co...
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. Ver. 31. _We are not children, &c._] _q.d._ We are in a far better condition than legalists. "I have blessed Ishmael," saith...
NOT CHILDREN OF THE BONDWOMAN; not under the Mosaic dispensation represented by her, but under the gospel dispensation represented by the free-woman. Of course we are free from subjection to Mosaic ri...
The application of the lesson:...
SO THEN, BRETHREN, WE ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THE BOND-WOMAN, BUT OF THE FREE. What the prophet had foretold found its realization in the Church of the New Testament. We Christians, we believers, who by v...
HOW CHILDREN ARE ADOPTED AS SONS (vs.1-7) The first few verses of chapter 4 give us the distinctive Christian position in more detail. This position is the result of promise accomplished, as contrast...
TELL ME, YOU WHO DESIRE TO BE UNDER THE LAW, DO YOU NOT HEAR THE LAW? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. Notice Abraham's age: 75 - P...
28-31 The history thus explained is applied. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free. If the privileges of all believers were so great, according to the new covenant...
The church of the Gentiles was not typified in Hagar, but in Sarah; from whence the scope of the apostle is to conclude, that we are not under the law, obliged to Judaical observances, but are freed f...
Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of the handmaid, but of the free woman. [Tell me, ye who are so eager to return to the law, do ye not note what the law itself says? Of itself it warns you not...
Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II Nay, rather banish quite away from your "free"[65]...
Galatians 4:31 then G686 brethren G80 are G2070 (G5748) not G3756 children G5043 bondwoman G3814 but G235 free...
‘Wherefore, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free-woman. Christ set us free with a view to our freedom, therefore stand fast continually, and do not be entangled again in a yoke...
A LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT LAW (GALATIANS 4:21). Paul now turns to the Old Testament for examples of what he is trying to say....
Galatians 4:31. WHEREFORE, BRETHREN, WE ARE NOT CHILDREN OF A (_i.e.,_ any) BONDWOMAN, BUT OF THE FREEWOMAN. The pith of the typological illustration, Galatians 4:21 ff., and the final result of the w...
The Apostle resumes his argument for the superiority of the gospel over the law, and illustrates the difference of the two by an allegorical interpretation of the history of Sarah and Hagar, and their...
BUT OF THE FREEWOMAN (αλλα της ελευθερας). We are children of Abraham by faith (Galatians 3:7)....
Galatians 4:1. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father....
Galatians 4:12. _Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all._ He had told them the gospel, and other teachers had come in and alienated their affections. H...
CONTENTS: Believers full redemption from the law. Sonship through the Spirit. Dangers of lapsing into legality. Impossibility of mixing law and grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Abra...
Galatians 4:1. _The heir, as long as he is a child,_ and a minor, _differeth_ _nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all._ He is under guardians, till the year appointed by the will of his fath...
BUT OF THE FREE WOMAN. "I have showed you from The Law itself that we who are God's children by faith, are Abraham's true descendants, born of the free woman, and we will receive our Father's property...
_We are not children of the bondwomn, but of the free._ NATURE AND THE SUPERNATURAL The whole force of this application of the allegory lies in the truth of the facts. It is because the birth of Isaa...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 4:21 Paul again emphasizes the difference between being a free child of God and being a slave to the law, sin, and false gods. Abraham’s son Ishmael—technically the firstbo...
CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He continues the argument of the preceding chapter that the Jews, like children and slaves, were under the Jewish law as a pædagague, while Christians, as sons o...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 4:24. WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY.—Under the things spoken of—the two sons, with their contrast of parentage and position—there lies a spiritual meaning. G...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 4:1 NOW I SAY (λέγω δέ). A form of expression usual with the apostle when introducing a new statement designed either to explain or elucidate something before said (of. Galati...
Now I say, That an heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father (Galatians 4:1-2...
1 John 3:1; 1 John 3:2; Galatians 5:1; Galatians 5:13; Hebrews 2:14;...
So then — To sum up all. We — Who believe. Are not children of the bondwoman — Have nothing to do with the servile Mosaic dispensation. But of the free — Being free from the curse and the bond of that...
Here the apostle draws. conclusion from the foregoing discourse, thus: "As Sarah cast out Hagar and Ishmael, so must the children of the New Jerusalem cast out the law, and all the legal rites, hencef...